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Wednesday, 04 February 2026
Apr 16 In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle 
Apr 17 Anton Wildgans, writer
Apr 18 Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart).
Apr 18 Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens
Apr 19 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies
Apr 20 Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us)
Apr 21 Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist (Rocks of Oran)
Apr 22 Alexander Kerensky, Simbirsk, Russian PM (1917)
Apr 23 Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22).
Apr 23 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London.
Apr 23 The opera "Patience or Bunthorne's Bride" is produced (London).
Apr 25 250000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany.
Apr 25 Hans Windisch, German new testament expert.
Apr 27 Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76
Apr 27 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
Apr 28 Robert W Ollinger, US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies
May 01 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist
May 02 In this year, Portage La Prairie Manitoba, Canadian Pacific Railway starts building its prairie section of track; inaugural sod turned for the CPR as a company line; inaugural rail also laid at Fort William
May 03 Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
May 04 Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism)
May 05 Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine.
May 08 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch
May 10 Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation.
May 11 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Libusa," premieres in Prague
May 11 Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59.
May 11 Jan van Gilse, composer/resistance fighter (Frau Helga von Staveren)
May 12 France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony.
May 12 Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia is recorded as becoming a French protectorate
May 12 Tunisia is recorded as becoming a French protectorate
May 13 Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer.
May 14 Ed Walsh, pitcher, lowest lifetime ERA (1.82)
May 16 World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin).
May 16 World's inaugural elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
May 17 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC
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